European Royal History

“Royal Cousins End Engagement.”The Gazette of Montreal, Quebec (9 Sep. 1961). Max of Baden and Beatrix of Hohenlohe-Langenburg On 7 September 1961, Fürst Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg announced that his sister, Princess Beatrix, and her fiancé, Prince Max of Baden, had broken off their engagement by mutual consent. The cause for the end of the couple was…

Margarita, Custodian of the Romanian Crown, and the Royal Family continue to work with society and the authorities of the Romanian state to strengthen the national response to the threat posed by COVID-19. Following the declaration of the state of emergency in Romania, the Crown Custodian and her sisters made the decision to make available…

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Queen Marie of Romania from Abis Studio on Vimeo. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’tTIqgLufSjtXw2cZ5AT4vg’,sig:’HVPXfJPzpAeJuVFIYVTwHfae6_hWHmN707cI32HWopg=’,w:’436px’,h:’594px’,items:’3139588′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); If you are interested, you can rent online the film Queen Marie of Romania (Maria – Inima Romaniei), produced by Abis Studio. It is available with subtitles in English, French, and Romanian. Alexis Sweet Cahill directed the…

Today HSH Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein celebrates his fiftieth birthday. The prince was born on 16 May 1969 at St Gallen, Switzerland, and named Maximilian Nikolaus Maria; he is the second son of Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (b.1945) and Countess Marie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (b.1940), who married in 1967. Maximilian followed elder brother Hereditary Prince…

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India Oxenberg and Patrick D’Ignazio Wonderful news from a descendant of the Serbian royal family! India Oxenberg (b.1991) has recently become engaged to Patrick D’Ignazio, a chef at the Double Zero restaurant in New York City. India is the daughter of Catherine Oxenberg (b.1961) and William Weitz Shaffer (b.1946); she is the granddaughter of Princess…

On 23 May 2010, Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna died at La Paz Hospital in Madrid. The grand duchess was ninety-five years-old. She was the last surviving member of the Imperial House of Romanov to have been born in the Russian Empire before its fall in 1917. Embed from Getty Images window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’2nUPj-oFT1R987QNCQZDkQ’,sig:’FXRRQ86YigWv2K3S8yIkSyvkYW8zNERmtJ_qCzp0-dw=’,w:’594px’,h:’406px’,items:’101558333′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })});…

HIH Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia.  Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna with Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna at the baby’s baptism. The charm bracelet created by Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida to celebrate their daughter Grand Duchess Maria’s birth. The Little Heiress. On 23 December 1953, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia was born…